PowerDesigner is a collaborative enterprise modelling tool produced by Sybase. PowerDesigner runs under Microsoft Windows as a native application, and runs under Eclipse through a plugin. PowerDesigner supports model-driven architecture software design. PowerDesigner uses the .pdm file format.

PowerDesigner data modeling tool market share in 2002 was 39%.PowerDesigner is priced from $3,000 to $7,500 USD per developer seat.

PowerDesigner includes support for:

Business Process Modeling (ProcessAnalyst) supporting BPMN

Code generation (Java, C#, VB .NET, Hibernate, EJB3, NHibernate, JSF, WinForm (.NET and .NET CF), PowerBuilder, ...)

Data modeling (works with most major RDBMS systems)

Data Warehouse Modeling (WarehouseArchitect)

Eclipse plugin

Object modeling (UML 2.0 diagrams)

Report generation

Supports Simul8 to add simulation functions to the BPM module to enhance business processes design.

Repository

Requirements analysis

XML Modeling supporting XML Schema and DTD standards

Visual Studio 2005 / 2008 addin